Hard headed leaders warned against social progress misuses
The piece argues against equating hard headedness with thick headedness and defends objective, unemotional analysis as essential for social progress. It critiques attacks on Wall Street influences, urges prudent postwar surplus disposal to aid local governments, and notes support for the Golden Gloves show while cautioning ambivalence toward Prohibition-era reform.
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Willkie
Alex Fidler
Mr. Cummins
the Gazette
The
Young Men’s Bureau
Frigid Winter Storm Grips Iowa With Heavy Snow
Iowa shivers under a first 1944 snowstorm. Fort Dodge reports six inches while Cedar Rapids sees about four as gusty winds and drifting snow threaten travel. Des Moines forecasts zero to five below by Friday morning with continued cold and poor visibility. A 62 year old man, Albert Branson of Hampton, dies shoveling snow.
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Fort Dodge
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
State Highway Commission
Hampton
Albert Branson
Spencer
Council Bluffs
Mason City
Sioux City
Charles City
Ames
Lamont
Marshalltown
Waterloo
Snow Heavy Snowfall Strikes Nebraska and Missouri
Snowfall of up to 10 inches blanketed southeast Nebraska and spread statewide, delaying travel on secondary roads and threatening intercity routes. Omaha and Lincoln closed schools as temperatures dropped toward zero and wind rose, with Butte and Lander also reporting cold with 20 and 16 degree readings.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Lincoln
F. H. Klietsch
Missouri
Tarkio
Rocky Mountain
Butte
Mont
Lander
Wyo
Internal Discord Brews in Colombia
The Colombian government warned the opposition it could invoke martial law if protests escalate after Conservative leader Laureano Gomez was arrested on contempt of court. Street clashes left scores injured nationwide as factions feuded over Gomez and his manifesto.
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Bogota
Colombia
Laureano Gomez
Gomez
Chicago foundry strike workers return to jobs
About 2,000 workers who walked out in 25 foundries around Chicago resumed work Thursday after assurances the War Labor Board would study their wage dispute.
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Chicago
War Labor Board
Spruance Named For Full Admiral
President Roosevelt on Thursday nominated Vice Admiral Raymond A Spruance and Rear Admiral Richmond K Turner for higher ranks following their key roles in the Marshall Islands campaign. The proposal elevates Spruance to full admiral, while Turner would be promoted to vice admiral for his command of the amphibious forces that seized Kwajalein Atoll.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Marshall Islands
Raymond A Spruance
Richmond K. Turner
Spruance
Central Pacific
Turner
Kwajalein Atoll
Reds Close In On Krivoi Rog As Drive Expands
Soviet forces drive within eight miles of Krivoi Rog as Malinovsky’s troops push through mud to breach the Dnieper bend defenses. Across the front Govorov’s Leningrad armies seize 30 localities and kill over 1,200 Germans near the Luga railway junction.
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Moscow
Krivoi Rog
Baltic States
Baltic
Black Sea
Lake Ilmen
Lake Peipus
Ukraine
Dnieper
Rodion Y ¥. Malinovsky
Cherkasy
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Luga
Pskov
Yanks Bomb Brunswick in Nazi defense bid
German fighters swarmed Fortress bombers near Brunswick in a fierce, costly assault as U.S. and British air raids expanded. Lt. Chaneles, a bomber co pilot from Brooklyn, described a brutal dog fight while Fortresses hit the aircraft center near Brunswick and bombers attacked Gilze Rijen and Pas de Calais.
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Brunswick
London
Luftwaffe
Benjamin R. Chaneles
Brooklyn
Chaneles
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
United States
Gilze-Rijen
Rotterdam
Holland
Pas de Calais
France
Royal Air Force
Germany
Kitten Freed From Mail Box After 25 Calls
Special Delivery Carrier Frank Richardson freed a kitten from a package collection box on Twenty fourth street at B avenue NE after about 25 upset mothers called the post office. A crowd of 30 to 40 youngsters gathered as the box was opened and the cat, asleep in a sack, was recovered before two youths fled with it.
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Frank Richardson
Twentyfourth Street
B Avenue NE
Richardson
Cedar Rapids
the Humane Society
Fairfax Leads Linn County in Fourth War Loan Drive
Fairfax exceeded its $104000 quota by $1000 as Linn County’s first township to top the drive. Martin's store Cedar Rapids employees compete for awards for selling the most bonds and stamps with four women already over the $200 mark.
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Linn County
Fairfax
B T Perrine
Perrine
Cedar Rapids News
Martin
Cedar Rapids
Bonds Sold At Martlins Bond Booth In Linn County
Miss Nola Berrer led a Wednesday after noon sale with 15 175 dollars in bonds followed by Miss Ula Eckert with 875, Miss Josephine Norton 400 and Miss Ann McCarthy 275 total 23675 dollars. Sgt Minnie Mai Williamson Master Sgt F G Sherman and Staff Sgt B P McLeod oversaw brisk sales. McLeod, a Pearl Harbor veteran, wears the Purple Heart. Top nine retail store workers will win prizes from 100 war bonds to 12 50 in war stamps chosen by Linn county war finance committee with two 100 bond donations from the Chamber of Commerce and The Gazette. Continues on Page 8 Col 5.
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Nola Berrer
Ula Eckert
Josephine Norton
Ann McCarthy
Martlin
Minnie Mai Williamson
F. G. Sherman
B. P. McLeod
Leod
Pearl Harbor
Linn County War Finance Committee
Retail Merchants Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Gazette Company
City
Japs Abandon Main Base in Northeast New Guinea
Allied pilots report Madang near northeast New Guinea appears deserted with anti-aircraft silent and signs of demolished buildings. MacArthur HQ notes reduced shipping at Rabaul and hints Japanese may reroute supplies as ground forces advance toward Madang and nearby airfields.
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New Guinea
Japan
Madang
Bruce Marston
Pasadena
Calif
Olen Clements
Alexishafen
Kiska
Aleutians
Two di
Miavieng
New Ireland
New Britain
Solomons
Rabauls
Vunakanau
Tobera
Senate votes on extending food subsidy program
Washington AP reports the Senate approved an amendment to extend the present government price control subsidy until June 30 while debating the wider subsidy repeal bill. Maloney’s bid to extend costs $1.5 billion was defeated 49 to 26, with party lines and a few crossovers shaping the outcome.
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Senate
Senate Farm Bloc
Francis Maloney
Dconn
Maloney
John H Bankhead
Dala
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Bankhead
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Patterson Reports Anzio Beach-Head Tight Under German Pressure
Acting Secretary of War Patterson says Allied beach-head at Anzio is firmly established despite strong German counterattacks. He notes losses, prisoners, and continued heavy artillery and air activity, with 25,665 American casualties in Italy to date. In the Pacific, he cites Kwajalein losses and the decimation of the original Japanese force.
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Washington (Ap
Patterson
Lat
Anzio
Rome
Italy
Salerno
Fifth Army
Pacific
Kwajalein
Kwajalein Island
Kwajalein Front Falls Behind in Marshall Islands Battles
From Kwajalein atoll American ships and planes extended strikes to other Marshall bases with no opposition from Japanese forces. U S Fourth Division Marines and Seventh Army troops, after seizing Kwajalein, hunt hidden snipers and prepare for assaults on garrisons trapped on nearby atolls. Jaluit base noted as attacked early February but officials say raids on enemy bases will not be named.
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Sixth Army
Rabaul
Douglas MacArthur
Pearl Harbor
INS
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Island
Japan
mid-Pacific
United States
Roosevelts Request for 150 Million Public Works Approved
President Roosevelt approved and sent to Congress a Budget Bureau recommendation for an extra 150 million dollars for the Federal Works agency. Congress had authorized 500 million and appropriated 350 million. the agency has largely spent the fund and seeks the remaining 150 million for war-expanded communities.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Budget Bureau
Federal Works Agency
Student Nurses Strike Over Work Rules In Columbus
In Columbus Georgia 102 senior student nurses staged a sitdown strike at city hospital to protest a rule limiting students to three nights out per week. About 200 patients were left without direct nurse care as supervisors staffed floors. One student returned to duty while others stayed in the nurses home dining area.
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Columbus, Ga
Red Cross
Columbus City Hospital
Marris Smith
Allies Weaken Cassino Front as Rome Drive Stalls
Allied and German forces trade heavy blows along the Cassino front and the Rome area. American and British troops fend off multiple Nazi thrusts while preparing for a possible breakthrough toward the Fifth Army south of Cassino. Allied bombers raid Corsica and the Nice coast as air operations total about 400 sorties with limited opposition.
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Algiers
Rome
Cassino
Homer Bigart
New York Herald Tribune
Anzio
Cisterna
Radio
Fifth Army
Corsica
Nice
Porto San Stephano
Tokyo Reports New U S Raid on Wake
The Japanese Domei news agency said American heavy bombers attacked Wake Island for the third time in ten nights. Eighteen four engined bombers reportedly reached the target but caused no damage or casualties. Domei cited a base in the Central Pacific as the source.
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Unitedress
Wake Island
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Domei
Central Pacific
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